13 Nov 2010

Despite the technical problems we managed to do the show on Saturday evening. The movies here show a glimpse of the projections that we shot. Thanks to people who supplied us drawings that we used to make the animations. We'll be editing a better quality movie of the whole show later. And thanks for Good Band for the soundtrack.

As a conclusion we can tell that we managed to keep the budget minimum and recycle all of the cardboard of the Nordic, Danish and Belgian pavillions. So, give trash a chance, please.

We ran the workshop with main theme of Architecture of Mind and daily subthemes of Fear, Machine and Self-portrait. The main thing, however, was to make people do something differently. This was sort of an experiment on play. From another angle you can see the global society work more and more like a machine, the place of individual inside it defined by fear and by one's capability to handle it. That's where you are and what you are. It's a changing in-between state of being that we are.

We thank for all the participants for their effort they did by drawing material to us. In total we got 228 works. The themes for the three 6-hour days of the workshop were Fear, Machine and Self-portrait.

Each of the prized artists will receive a full-year (4 issues) subscription of Kuti magazine.

We've used some of the works here and many others to create simple animations by using metamorphosis. We'll update the complete movie for you to see on this blog later when we're back in Finland.

11 Nov 2010

W-A-A-ALLL is-s-s-s-s everywhere-e-e-e-e,
any-y-ywhe-re-re
power hönkivät hands
metal thirst
automatic ihmelapsi
wad-blouse-dog the assembly line moves
cheap jam from telecommunications company
awakening beak of the mobile in lit iris.
The bubble bath bubbles prettily,
it is warm?
Scoopful of ice-cream & soda drinks to straight bed,
on sprayer prettily tan
extension of the cuticle
from the base the sure picture
is shot at by 15 times in a second.
Really lanky foot
buttons in the refrigerator
he spring siren cools feelings, it is been prettily.
Packed feelings
every day of the year.
The year is short.
It is been machines every day in our life.
(as translated from Finnish into English with variety of online translators)

10 Nov 2010

WHEN night sleeps on your cheek,
when night sleeps under your cheek
the ghosts behind the wallpapers begin their song
motor scrap in heart
the lowest gate opens
into garage, on trip Alinen
twitching meat, cold ripples
here all the hands are present
on forehead, stomach, neck
the body loses its distance
it identifies only the forest in forest
the shout dresses the sleep
with brush of the pyramid hair in fire
you count square metres
trip to the stars, core of your fears
(as translated from Finnish into English with variety of online translators)

After experiencing 5 hours of super-fast Italian internet on Tuesday night we gave up and decided to try again this morning. So, we are here, finally:

ARCHITECTURE OF MIND with BOING BEING

Workshop Wednesday-Friday from 11 to 17.

We'll be working through the week with the theme that states in the headline. What that means will reveal itself during the week.

We'll ask people to join us in a workshop to draw and build improvised images and installations of cardboard sculptures. As materials we'll recycle cardboard, wood and whatever the mansions of Nordic Pavillion feed us with.

What we'll be looking for are states of in-between, structures of unconsciousness. During the week we'll use the material done to create short animations and poetry, in search of something in-between. The textual material is filtered out via different online translators.

Every day of the workshop will contain a simple separate theme, merely to inspire the people who want to join us. From the works we'll each day select three who'll be awarded with a one year subscription of our comic tabloid Kuti.

The week will end up with a selected exhibition of the works, animations and performance. This to be happening on Saturday. What comes to details, we'll inform more about them later through this blog.

7 Nov 2010

at work with

At Work With is a project focusing on architecture as practise. Initiated by Economy (Tor Lindstrand) and Testbedstudio (Anders Johansson and Erik Wingquist), it takes the form of an office environment with a residency program during the three months in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. At Work With is conceived as a workspace for seminars, screenings, discussions, displays, practices, projects, meetings, modelling, projections, provocations, interactions, broadcasts, dreams, cooking and whims. Constructed as a continuous staging of meetings between practitioners and visitors, it is a working office as well as a social meeting point that emphasizes exchange and conversations about architecture. The project was commissioned by the Swedish Museum of Architecture.